Mozilla Celebrates a Year of Shrinking Firefox Memory

http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/06/mozilla-celebrates-a-year-of-shrinking-firefox-memory/

 

It definitely has gotten a lot better.

 

It's kind of characteristic of Mozilla though that they've solved the longstanding memory bloat just when memory has stopped being such a serious issue for most people.

 

Hurrah! We are celebrating, right?

 

Sounds like someone's calling me a grump

 

I was just being a little ironic. I mean, of all the things to celebrate, shrinking memory loss is not a exactly a jubilee is it? More like a half pint of slightly warm mild ale sitting in a corner of a dark pub.

I'd be more likely to celebrate if Mozilla stopped trying to emulate Google, had a realistic upgrade cycle & fixed the main problems. Then I may party a little ...

 

what's the main problems?

 

Where do I start? Seriously though, Firefox/Waterfox is working well on my desktop but I have noticed problems with responsiveness on notebooks/laptops that I have used. The tabs seem to be taking a lot of RAM & right-click drop down menus aren't very responsive when you first try to use them. SeaMonkey seems to be inheriting some of these problems so I reckon it's a Gecko thing. I really think that a lot of problems people are having with Firefox, which is contributing to it being less used, stem from the rapid release cycles that Mozilla are trying to emulate Chrome with.

 

I haven't noticed that. However, improvements arriving in FF15 (mentioned here , further details here) might alleviate your problems.

I've been watching the Memshrink project from its start and think that they've done a really good job. An interesting site related to that project is https://areweslimyet.com/

 

I've noticed the problems I discussed earlier on more than one computer, although both only had 2 Gb of RAM or less, I've noticed the same thing on SeaMonkey (to a lesser extent). It could be an extension issue, but it doesn't explain why none of these problems manifest on my powerful 64 bit PC. No other browser on my notebook suffers from this problem. I've been told that a lot of processes run on Fx tabs & that could be a factor. It's no accident I'm having to make this reply in Opera 12.